I want to burn a lipo, Tips ?

[E-Revonut]

before you short it check it with a voltmeter and if it's farely dead put some charge back into it first, but be careful and watch it while you do that too

[Tempted]

I used a jumper one time to direct short a Venom 3s pack. All it did was hiss and then melt the solder joint on the jumper. No flames, no smoke, no nothing. I almost cried.

[jayjay283]

thats just lame, all this fear they put in us about lipos and you can't hurt yourself with them if you try

[redshift]

Another myth disspelled. Love the brief commentary tho. Maybe if we could get all the RCM members to donate some 'fuel' we could have a medium-sized bonfire.

Nice try JJ.

[rawfuls]

Aww, I'm bummmed, I was hoping to see a nice big fireball when I came back from Orientation :(

What if we put a constant, say, 20V into a 7.4V battery, wouldn't that make some fun?

[E-Revonut]

yes, yes it would!!!

[rawfuls]

We have a goal!

[zeropointbug]

That would be GREEEAAAT!

I think if you do a slow over charge to warm all the internals nice to cause thermal runaway, that should do it!

[lincpimp]

HA, I like to take a spare car battery and some jumper cables and hook it up to a already puffed cell. Did this a few times, the cell puffed to about 10 times its normal thickness then popped and produced quite a bit of smoke. No fire though. I have also driven nails in them, cut them in half with a machette and crushed them under car tires and in a bench vise. I have dead lipos sitting around and have never had an issue. I did get one pretty warm once, left my m8 tx on all night and the next morning the pack was quite warm, lucky I did not melt the radio!!!

[jayjay283]

I pulled it out of the fire with pliers (still smoldering)



I feel I gave that turd battery back the suffering it gave me

[Rivermaxx]

I say send it back to maxcramps like that.

[jayjay283]

LOL river, good one but im not spending the $5 to ship it to them they got 1 over on me as a newb. Nothing more goes to them..... My wife had a point if these lipos dont burn why did I spend $60 on lipo fireproof bags. What a racket

[zeropointbug]

Well I know the first gen. lipo RC batteries sure had fire issues, that's what the scare is all about, but the packs in the last couple years have a much lower ignition rate.

Lithium Ion cells are much more prone to catching on fire.

[maxair45]

Originally Posted by Rivermaxx

I say send it back to maxcramps like that.

Yea just say you went to charge it and it did that for no reason. I'd love to see the reaction